Judge lost job over popcorn: Report

A New York City parking judge who lost his job in 2009 did so because he accepted gifts of popcorn from a person whose tickets he'd dismissed, according to this report:

Officials disclosed yesterday that Alan Rubin, employed as an administrative-law judge by the Finance Department since May 2004, got the heave-ho in June 2009 because he accepted six to eight bags of free popcorn a year earlier from a food-delivery driver whose tickets he had dismissed.

Rubin agreed to pay a $2,500 fine to the Conflicts of Interest Board -- making this the most expensive snack of his life.